My cousin just texted me about the LA fires. They lost everything. They sent before and after pictures of their house. Horrifying—absolutely nothing left. 
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Oh my god… that’s so awful. 
Are they insured, at least?
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Oh, I would imagine! Pretty upscale house. Or was. She was sad mostly for heirlooms. Fortunately we’ve got some we offered to send. My grandmother’s dining room table, which we don’t use except to put papers and stuff on.
ETA: Thanks for commiserating!
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Yeah, that’s the hardest part… heirlooms that can’t be replaced… My best to your cousin… I’m very sorry for everything that they lost.
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It’s the magical thinking of a toddler, yet again.
But normal toddlers grow out of that phase pretty quickly. We’re still waiting for Trump to do so.
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Was it about Climate Change Apocalypse that Shrub said, I don’t care, I won’t be around. (Rhetorical q-- I know I could just look it up.)
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If so, he was wrong. It’s destroying things and he’s still around…depending on where he goes it could very much affect him, and I hope it does.
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Worry not
I wish I could not. But I just can’t not.
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Yup. Time to make plenty of backups and put them in safe places. Abroad.
We’re going to see digital equivalents of SA hordes purging libraries and burning books.
And burning actual books as well.
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QAA Podcast: Mal Fuego feat. Mike Rothschild (E308)
LA is going through one of the most destructive natural disasters in its history. So naturally there is a lot of nonsense online about the secret purpose of the blazes. To discuss, we talk to journalist and climate refugee Mike Rothschild. The author of Jewish Space Lasers is one of many people who lost their homes to the Eaton fire. We chat about what it’s like to evacuate in order to escape a fast-spreading fire, climate change, and some of the more popular ways that online conspiracists are speculating about the causes of the conflagration.
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We have around 400 to 2400 wild fires every fucking year.
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But you don’t see a city the size of LA burning in Finland, do you? See, it’s all because of the lib’s mismanagement! (/s)
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Possible in theory… We just have to move 2 million people to Helsinki capital region and house them…
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